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  1. 12-24-2007 #1
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    Exclamation cd // ?

    Hi all,
    I don't know how many of you guyz came across this,
    type
    Code:
    cd //
ls
    what's the difference between cd / and cd //
    Do we have special // directory or is it some kind of a bug
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    Neither. Multiple slashes are folded to one for convenience so /home/mydir and ///////home///////////////mydir as equivalent (though the latter takes more typing). It means, for example, that you don't have to worry about whether your HOME variable ends with a slash when you do something like "cd $HOME/myfiles".
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